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Unilateral benign yellow dot maculopathy

PURPOSE: To describe a unique case of unilateral benign yellow dot maculopathy. OBSERVATIONS: A 25-year-man was evaluated after incidental finding of yellow dots in the right macula. The findings of examination and multimodal imaging were in keeping with a diagnosis of benign yellow dot maculopathy....

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Autores principales: Mishra, Amit V., Pollmann, André S., Choudhry, Netan, Demmings, Erin, Gupta, R. Rishi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7995479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33796798
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2021.101068
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Sumario:PURPOSE: To describe a unique case of unilateral benign yellow dot maculopathy. OBSERVATIONS: A 25-year-man was evaluated after incidental finding of yellow dots in the right macula. The findings of examination and multimodal imaging were in keeping with a diagnosis of benign yellow dot maculopathy. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: Benign yellow dot maculopathy is a recently described entity with either a sporadic or dominant inheritance pattern. This is the first known report of the characteristic findings of this phenotype presenting unilaterally.